Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab about the one-eyed man who gouged out the eye of a healthy person. Ibn Shihab said, ""If the healthy person wants to take retaliation from him, he can have his retaliation. If he prefers, he has blood-money of one thousand dinars, twelve thousand dirhams."" Yahya ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Sulayman ibn Yasar that Zayd ibn Thabit used to say, ""When the eye remains but the sight is lost, one hundred dinars are payable for it."" Yahya said, ""Malik was asked about cutting off the lower lid of the eye and the bone around the eye. He said, 'There is onl...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Sulayman ibn Yasar mention that a face wound in which the bone was bared was like a head wound in which the bone was bared, unless the face was scarred by the wound. Then the blood-money is increased by one half of the blood-money of the head wound in which the s...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said, that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, ""For every piercing wound in any of the organs or limbs of the body, one third of the blood-money of that limb is payable

Malik related to me, ""Ibn Shihab did not think and nor do I, that there is a generally agreed on way of doing things regarding a piercing wound in any of the organs or limbs of the body, but I think that there is ijtihad in the case. The imam uses ijtihad in it, and there is no generally agreed on way of doing things ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman that Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr allowed retaliation for a head wound which splintered the bone

ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman said, ""I asked Said ibn al Musayyab, 'How much for the finger of a woman?' He said, 'Ten camels' I said, 'How much for two fingers?' He said, 'Twenty camels.' I said, 'How much for three?' He said, 'Thirty camels.' I said, 'How much for four?' He said, 'Twenty camels.' I said, 'When her wound is ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Muslim ibn Jundub from Aslam, the mawla of Umar ibn al-Khattab that Umar ibn al-Khattab decided on a camel for a molar, a camel for a collar-bone, and a camel for a rib

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Said ibn al-Musayyab say, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab decided on a camel for each molar, and Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan decided on five camels for each molar."" Said ibn al-Musayyab said, ""The blood-money is less in the judgement of Umar ibn al-Khattab and more in the jud...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab used to say,' 'When a tooth is struck and becomes black, there is complete blood- money for it. If it falls out after it becomes black, there is also the complete blood-money for it

Yahya related to me from Malik from Da'ud ibn al-Husayn that Abu Ghatafan ibn Tarif al-Murri informed him that Marwan ibn al-Hakam sent him to Abdullah ibn Abbas to ask him what there was for the molar. Abdullah ibn Abbas said, ""There are five camels for it."" He said, ""Marwan sent me back again to Abdullah ibn Abbas...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father made all the teeth the same in the blood-money and did not prefer any kind over others. Malik said, ""What is done in our community is that the front teeth, molars, and eye-teeth have the same blood-money. That is because the Messenger of Allah, may Al...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Said ibn al-Musayyab and Sulayman ibn Yasar said, ""The head wound of the slave in which the bone is bared is a twentieth of his price

Malik related to me that he had heard that Marwan ibn al-Hakam gave a decision about a slave who was injured that the person who injured him had to pay what he had diminished of the value of the slave. Malik said, ""What is done in our community is that for the head wound of a slave that bares the bone, there is a twen...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz gave a decision that when a jew or christian was killed, his blood-money was half the blood-money of a free muslim. Malik said, ""What is done in our community, is that a muslim is not killed for a kafir unless the muslim kills him by deceit. Then h...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Sulayman ibn Yasar said, ""The blood-money of a magian is eight hundred dirhams."" Malik said, ""This is what is done in our community."" Malik said, ""The blood-monies of the jew, christian, and magian in their injuries, is according to the injury of the muslims ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father said, ""The tribe is not obliged to pay blood-money for intentional murder. They pay blood-money for accidental killing

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, ""The precedent of the sunna is that the tribe are not liable for any blood- money of an intentional killing unless they wish that."" Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said the same as that

Malik said that Ibn Shihab said, ""The precedent of the sunna in the intentional murder is that when the relatives of the murdered person relinquish retaliation, the blood-money is owed by the murderer from his own property unless the tribe helps him with it willingly."" Malik said, ""What is done in our community is t...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Umar ibn al- Khattab demanded of the people at Mina, ""If anyone has knowledge of blood-money, let him inform me."" Ad-Dahhak ibn Sufyan al-Kilabi stood up and said, ""The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, wrote to me that the wife of Ashyam...

Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Amr ibn Shuayb that a man of the Banu Mudlij called Qatada threw a sword at his son and it struck his thigh. The wound bled profusely and he died. Suraqa ibn Jusham came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and mentioned that to him Umar said to him, ""At the watering place of Qudayd coun...

Malik said that he had heard that Said ibn al-Musayyab and Sulayman ibn Yasar were asked, ""Does one deal more harshly in taking the blood-money in the sacred month?"" They said, ""No. But it is increased in it because of violating the month."" It was said to Said, ""Does one increase for the wound as one increases for...

Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Urwa ibn az- Zubayr that a man of the Ansar called Uhayha ibn al-Julah had a young paternal uncle who was younger than him and who was living with his maternal uncles. Uhayha took him and killed him. His maternal uncles said, ""We brought him up from a baby to a youth till h...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab and Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""The wound of an animal is of no account and no compensation is due for it. The well is of no account and no compensati...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab killed five or seven people for one man whom they had killed secretly by trickery. Umar said, ""Had all the people of Sana joined forces against him, I would have killed them all

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sad ibn Zurara that he had heard that Hafsa, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, killed one of her slave-girls who had used sorcery against her. She was a mudabbara. Hafsa gave the order, and she was killed. Malik said, ""T...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Umar ibn Husayn, the mawla of A'isha bint Qudama, that Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan imposed retaliation against a man who killed a mawla with a stick and so the mawla's patron killed the man with a stick. Malik said, ""The generally agreed on way of doing things in our community about whi...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Marwan ibn al-Hakam wrote to Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan to mention to him that a drunkard was brought to him who had killed a man. Muawiya wrote to him to kill him in retaliation for the dead man. Yahya said that Malik said, ""The best of what I have heard on the interp...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he saw whomever he was satisfied with among the people of knowledge say about a man who willed that his murderer be pardoned when he murdered him intentionally, ""That is permitted for him. He is more entitled to the man's blood than any of his relatives after him."" Malik said about...

Yahya said that Malik said, ""The generally agreed on way of doing things in our community is that retaliation is taken from someone who breaks someone's hand or foot intentionally and not blood-money."" Malik said, ""Retaliation is not inflicted on anyone until the wound of the injured party has healed. Then retaliati...